BBC Internet Blog - Gavin Gibbons https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/ Staff from the BBC's online and technology teams talk about BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC's digital and mobile services. The blog is reactively moderated. Posts are normally closed for comment after three months. Your host is Eliza Kessler. en Copyright 2012 Thu, 07 May 2009 15:31:53 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.33-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Relaunching the News & Sport mobile sites Over the last year, I've been really encouraged that usage of the BBC mobile site has virtually doubled. BBC Mobile now reaches around 4m UK users and much of the ongoing growth has been driven by the appeal of BBC News and Sport content, which currently accounts for the bulk of traffic on the mobile site.

Back in 2008, Journalism embarked on a significant project to deliver a quicker, richer and easier to manage mobile service, to build upon the considerable achievements of the existing news and sport sites.

The project presented a number of challenges for the team, not least because it involved rationalising the systems used to produce the site. It's now managed and produced directly from the same system BBC journalists have been using for years, to publish content to the desktop sites. So it kind of felt like returning mobile to the mothership.

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]]> Gavin Gibbons Gavin Gibbons https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/05/relaunching_the_news_sport_mob.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/05/relaunching_the_news_sport_mob.html mobile Thu, 07 May 2009 15:31:53 +0000